Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 11 — Section 2043
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Volume 11
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 11
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But as there is an abundant supply of witnesses to the holy nativity; viz., all that has been on this account written, to hear witness to it, let us examine in some slight degree an announcement about God even in the Old Testament, that you may know that the fact that the birth of God was to be from a virgin was not only then announced when it actually came to pass, but had been foretold from the very beginning of the world, that, as the event to be brought about was ineffable, incredulity of the fact when actually present might be removed by its having been previously announced while …
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- Christian Classics Ethereal Library — NPNF2-11 UTF-8 text
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